chaotopia

This is one of my ‘more a plug than a review’ pieces. Jakub is a friend, and he has created a ground-breaking website for magic, aimed at people with aphantasia If you pick up a book on magic that’s got self-training exercises or almost any magic spell in it, you’ll almost certainly be invited to visualise. I never thought twice about this bias in the literature until I met people who can’t. This is a spectrum thing - some people can visualise if they try hard, some just cannot. And there are those who are hyperphantasic, who get rich imagery when others get little or none, like continuously when listening to music.  So someone who is aphantasic and yet passionately wants to study and practise magic has to make their own path forward, which is what Jakub has done. His work also covers dynamic meditation, for those who find static postures difficult for health reasons. The Rune-Flow website consists of 3 sections. In Jakub’s own words:  In the Daily Life section, you will find...